To wintry mix and a head cold, or well, it was a head cold on Wednesday when I started writing this, but now it’s Friday, and it’s in my chest. Wintry mix falling on HC White building courtyard from Debra Shapiro on Vimeo. Since I’m so belated in writing, here’re a few snapshots of the … [Read more…]
So here I am at another library conference, where I’m sitting in meetings with people talking about metadata before 9:00AM in the morning. Fortunately, I think the fashion for showing screens of code with pointy brackets is fading; instead they’re showing slides with lists of all kinds of technology and environments used to create the … [Read more…]
I didn’t hear enough of this during the election season.
I’d wanted to make this Sam Sifton chicken tetrazzini from the NYT mag ever since it was published last fall, even though it’s not like any tetrazzini I’m familiar with, that usually involve creamy white sauce and crumbs on top. It includes a chili-based sauce with dried red chiles and chicken broth and milk and … [Read more…]
So I guess yesterday was the first ordinary Sunday in January, because New Year’s Day was Sunday this year. I got up and made cherry muffins and a few rhubarb ones. As I suspected, the rhubarb ones aren’t very pretty. Then I went out to the fabric store and got a bunch of pink fleece … [Read more…]
Stop your mind with dirty snow. Jefferson Airplane, Ice Cream Phoenix, track 9 on Crown of Creation. Early January, what should be the brutal time of winter here in Wisconsin, is a little weird this year. Yes, it’s been brutally cold, but only for the last few days: on Monday & Tuesday it was in … [Read more…]
Happy New year, 2017. The bills and papers are not yet sorted – but us gold-plated state employees still have the day off tomorrow, to make up for the Sunday and Saturday holidays. We haven’t gotten paid yet either, because of the holidays, and the Federal Reserve’s closed tomorrow so no wire transfers – so … [Read more…]